If you mean, why my arguments against physicalism have failed, I don't believe you have demonstrated that they do, but I'll save you the trouble of st...
I'm sure I have. But then you say: In which case, what are we talking about? I'm arguing against physicalist views that your posts are representing, o...
Glad to hear you say that. I'm probably older than you, born first half of fifties, I was seven during the Cuban Missile Crisis, my parents were extre...
A clarification about my previous post, in respect of this particular statement: In this passage, an explicit appeal to a 'nonmaterial component' is m...
If Trump invites Putin back into the fold, and it seems likely, it will thrown Putin a lifeline, just when the Russian economy was really beginning to...
If Trump invites Putin back into the fold, and it seems likely, it will thrown Putin a lifeline, just when the Russian economy was really beginning to...
Seems all of a piece for how minds operate. (Just woke from a dream where I was in a room with some other people and we were discussing some eucalyptu...
Nothing I've said contradicts that. What I'm questioning is that the physicalist framework and, more generally, empiricist philosophy (the principle t...
Through mathematics, humans are able to discover, predict and control events that would otherwise never occur or be observed in nature. So while it's ...
After all the blood spilled, the enormous money spent...a lot of hearts will be broken tonight. Imagine the US combat advisers in the trenches with th...
You haven't established that. Where I joined was to challenge this statement of yours: To which I responded: Your response was: we can lift our arms. ...
The great stitch-up has begun. The 'initial talks' in Riyadh were about 'doing business' with Russia. You would have to wonder what kind of money Puti...
It does falsify physicalism, because it reverses the ontological priority that physicalism presumes, namely that the mind is dependent on or derived f...
That's not a shortcoming. I am not positing 'mind' in the sense implied by the phrase 'uncaused cause' as some entity or power that existed before any...
Do you think they're dismantling bureaucracy, or dismantling the government? What if Trump's hatred of 'the deep state' is actually just hatred of the...
I defend them with reference to the obvious shortcomings of physicalism, about which you have not answered any of my arguments. 'We trust our cognitiv...
I’ve been reviewing the news about the mass dismissal of personnel from the Nuclear Security agency, followed by frantic attempts by DOGE to unfuck th...
What you think the 'world at large' is, relies on and is dependent on a great many judgements that you will make when considering its nature. You migh...
And where is that 'external world' grounded, if not in the mind? Of course it is true that the mind receives information from sensable objects, but th...
The problem arises because of abstraction - the division of 'mind' and 'body' as two abstract or idealised entities which supposedly 'interact'. This ...
Much of our cognitive activity depends on sub- and unconscious processes, which by definition are not experienced (otherwise they'd be conscious). The...
But that's completely groundless speculation. Judgement is a cognitive function, exercised by an agent. And besides, even if it is true that other rat...
Congress has not uttered a squeak about anything Trump has done since the election. Not a word, not a raised eyebrow. If Trump says jump, their only r...
I’m wondering if the result of the US - Russia conference will amount to the US walking away from supporting Ukraine. The grounds will be a ‘peace’ pr...
Since reaching middle age - well gone now! - I've become painfully aware of the deficiencies of my education in 'The Classics'. Reading philosophy and...
Did I say that you were? There's nothing to be defensive about. I was responding to your comment simply to make a general point, I wasn't taking a sho...
It's a discussion, that's all. In the context, I was responding to RussellA's re-statement of the unparalleled brilliance of the Caledonian Crow. The ...
Of course it's true that h.sapiens didn't 'appear from nowhere'. But if you read up on evolutionary theory, the changes that accompanied the developme...
H.Sapiens are different in a way that makes an enormous difference. The fact that this is something modern culture can’t acknowledge is a cultural bli...
It's a work-in-progress. But I will call out a major source for what I've been researching the last year or so, namely, the first 15 or so lectures in...
The point of departure for me was doing a web search on the phrase 'the union of knower and known'. If you click that link, just scroll down the page ...
I voted no. About five years ago, there was a bitter debate on this Forum about a case in Indonesia where the Governor of Jakarta Indonesia was jailed...
In context, the passage in question is this: 'If there is value which is of value, it must lie outside all happening and being-so. For all happening a...
Nothing about Elon Musk activities or demeanour are a source of relief. He is almost a Hollywood caricature, a Bond movie villain. But unfortunately, ...
It was more the declarative nature of the text. It doesn’t present an argument or arguments, but a series of declarations. As I said previously, if ev...
Part of the argumentarium of denialism is to equate awareness of the danger of climate change with religious belief. The Australian PM who repealed a ...
It’s not a philosophical issue. Purely empirical. The composition of the atmosphere affects global climate. The only argument is not whether that is h...
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